Made a comment on this blog about whether or not id's should be anonymous.
Also prior to that, shot this off to the editor of the Globe and Mail.
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Dear Editor
I have no idea what level of free speech the Internet may be able to enable young people to engage in (it seems self evident), or what type of controversy it may lead to, nor what the current mild brouhaha is that seems to have erupted with vapid criticisms of opines from wanna-be preeminence and the like.
What I do know is this, that you never do really know.
One could think, that possibly, in the best or worst of both worlds, a youth with gangly hair, ripped jeans and a black anarchist T might perhance upon an errant copy of your paper and possibly persuse it in one of those off chance moments of rest from usual relaxation of admiring third world conditions from first world views.
He might note something noteworthy. A glaring ommision perhaps. Or a rude and persistent cranky ever reappearing iconic and ironic hypocracy about society and its love and hate relationship with the media. And our conditioning to it.
But you dont have to be young. Or old. Just observant.
Even with the letters you have recently published critical of youth and their writing and spelling capabilities (spell checkers are for adults only!), in your haste to settle the scores between adult and youth protests , you may have overlooked the caption for the photo on Page B1.
I am no person schooled in the art of tutelage of the proper exercise of English language use. But even a person with little knowledge of cars or no idea of exhaust manifold from a radiator knows a car that trails blue smoke is burning oil, and subsequently, not a good investment!
I have never seen a better paragon for all good English teachers though to use as an example of poor grammatical english than that silly statement accompanying that particular photo that your editor has actually approved to read as a sentence.
Shame, shame, shame.
Mach
Prince George BC
PS For what its worth, I think if the kids think the teach dresses like a dork with glasses and the Internet allows it for them to say so then so should we. Without protest! We have all had our fair chances to protest at what we think is bad or wrong as teens. Let the ball roll. Its not our time to stand on the moral soapbox.
Posted by mach1231
at 11:04 AM PDT
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